2011 Annual Report - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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MISSION AREAS 25 Space Control 26 Air and Missile Defense Technology 28 Communication Systems 30 Cyber Security 32 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems and Technology 34 Tactical Systems 36 Advanced Technology 38 Homeland Protection 40 Air Traffic Control 42 Engineering 44 THIS PAGE: Lithography process development for sub-90 nm features on 200 mm–diameter silicon wafer. Read more about the Advanced Technology mission on page 38.
mission areas SPACE CONTROL Lincoln Laboratory develops technology that enables the nation’s space surveillance system to meet the challenges of space situational awareness. The Laboratory works with systems to detect, track, and identify man-made satellites; performs satellite mission and payload assessment; and investigates technology to improve monitoring of the space environment, including space weather and atmospheric and ionospheric effects. The technology emphasis is the application of new components and algorithms to enable sensors with greatly enhanced capabilities and to support the development of net-centric processing systems for the nation’s Space Surveillance Network. PRINCIPAL 2011 ACCOMPLISHMENTS ■ In September 2010, the Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. This satellite, built by Boeing and Ball Aerospace, is based on technologies and techniques demonstrated in the Laboratory’s Space-Based Visible (SBV) program, which developed a contributing, operational sensor for the Space Surveillance Network between 1997 and 2008. In addition, the Laboratory provided SBSS with operational software, developed under the Optical Processing Architecture at Lincoln (OPAL) program, for mission planning and data processing. SBSS will provide significant capability improvement to the nation’s space situational awareness capability. 26 2011 Annual Report Avionics and communication Reaction wheel assembly 10 × 10 × 30 cm 4 kg, 12 W avg ■ Continuing its history of developing passive microwave remote sensing systems and exploitation algorithms, the Laboratory explored novel concepts for hyperspectral microwave sounding. This year, the first CUBESAT bus and payload concept were developed. ■ The Laboratory, leveraging its accomplishments on the Extended Space Sensors Architecture Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, is now working with the Air Force and the broader space community on incorporating the lessons learned into a comprehensive net-centric system for meeting space surveillance needs. Deployable solar panels Scanning assembly and attitude Passive microwave spectrometer This rendering shows an MIT and Lincoln Laboratory computer-aided design of a passive microwave sounder concept packaged in a nanosatellite (CUBESAT) form factor. ■ Lincoln Laboratory contributed significantly to the development of the overall system architecture for the nation’s space control capability. Analyses and results are heavily influenced by experiments with prototype hardware, algo rithms, and software systems. Close con nections to the operations and the user community allow implementation of real user needs into the emerging architecture. ■ The Space Surveillance Telescope, a unique 3.5 m telescope, designed and developed to synoptically search deep space for microsatellites, achieved first light in February 2011 (see page 20 for more on the telescope).
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